Trivia for
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] about halfway through the movie passing David Smith in front of his building.
  
  
• Alfred Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole Lombard.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Alfred Hitchcock] [bathroom] a conversation is made difficult by a noisy flushing toilet.
  
  
• Carole Lombard directed Alfred Hitchcock's cameo, making him do repeated retakes.
  
  
• Carole Lombard, in order to twit Alfred Hitchcock and generate publicity about his comment that "actors are cattle", set up a miniature cattle pen on the set. The pen held three heifers, each emblazoned with the name of one of the three stars.
  
  
• Cary Grant was the first choice for the role of David.
  
  
• This was the first Alfred Hitchcock film to be shown on American network television.
  
  

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